Thursday, March 28, 2019

The Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) Abdul Wali Khan University
Mardan (AWKUM) organized a one day workshop on "Turnitin Software and HEC
Plagiarism Policy" on March 19, 2019 in the Library Hall Garden Campus.

Focal persons from various
departments participated in the workshop. Director QEC AWKUM formally welcomed and
briefed the participants regarding the objectives of the workshop. He assured
his full support for facilitating faculty and students.

Addressing at the concluding ceremony, the honourable Vice Chancellor
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Khurshid Khan gave a comprehensive address about
implementation of HEC Plagiarism Policy. He strongly advised focal persons to extend
outcomes of the workshop with all faculty members. He further advised QEC to
arrange the same workshops for graduate students as well.

Dr Naimat Ullah Khan lecturer in Veterinary Clinical Medicine,
College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry Published a paper entitle
Prevalence of Theileria Parva in Large Ruminants through Conventional and
Molecular Techniques in District Lakki Marwat and Peshawar(Pakistan) in HEC
recognized journal under X-category( DOI)

A
delegation from Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, led by Mr. Azmat Ali Khan
(Assistant Professor, also entitled by NDU as Ambassador of AWKUM), Department
of Political Science, along with students Miss Sireen (M.A. Psychology), Mr.
Faizan (BS International Relations), attended a week long workshop entitled, “3rd
National Harmony Workshop, (18-22 March, 2019), arranged by National Defence
University (NDU) Islamabad. Delegations from all over Pakistani Universities
attended the workshop. The sole purpose of workshop was to highlight that
Pakistan is a multi-ethnic society, alienated geographically among separate
regions, with different cultures, languages, and socio-economic structures like
many other countries around the globe. Since many years, Pakistan is going
through serious internal and external security challenges. It is realized that
lack of national unity and integration among the federating units is one of the
major weaknesses that has accentuated these challenges. Pakistan needs a
national platform to bring her divergent linguistic and geographic groups
together for some common national goals.

Since
there was no such mechanism where the universities could be engaged in such an
exercise, NDU realized its national responsibility and launched a project
“MANZIL E MURAD” in 2015, which proved a success in achieving its goal. 2nd
workshop was organized in 2017. In continuation to this national project,
dedicated and continued effort is pre-requisite to build the required degree of
cohesion and common understanding among the people of all the federating units.
Universities and institutions being the think tanks can play an important role
in facilitating national harmony and integration.

Objectives
of the workshop included; to enhance national harmony and integration, generate
a sense of ownership among the academic community of all federating units
regarding national issues, to improve national pride and awareness among
university students and academia on security environment and role of Pakistan
Armed Forces towards stability and peace in Pakistan, and to share common
understanding regarding the possible solutions to existing problems in
Pakistan. The cleavages along the lines of traditional attachments are
fundamental to any plural societies as in Pakistan. Expert speakers from the
federal government and military experts talked on the said issues and national
security responding to multiple questions asked by the participants.

In
order to promote public awareness and research in climate change and WASH (water,
sanitation and hygiene) sectors, an MOU was signed between Abdul Wali Khan
University Mardan and Islamic Relief Pakistan in a function organized in Abdul
Wali Khan University Mardan. On behalf of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Prof.
Dr. Muhammad Khurshid Khan Vice
Chancellor and on behalf of Islamic Relief Pakistan Raza Nareju Head of
Programmes signed the MOU.

Earlier,
Dr. Shams Ali Baig Assistant Professor of the Department of Environmental
Sciences and Mr. Raza Narejo Head of Programmes of Islamic Relief Pakistan highlighted
the salient features of MoU and the possible joint engagements in public
awareness and research on climate change, water, sanitation and hygiene. Prof.
Dr. Muhammad Khurshid Khan Vice Chancellor of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
emphasized the potential role of the universities to work for the cause of civil
society and to play a role for the welfare of the people. They assured their
cooperation and expressed their willingness and enthusiasm to tackle the challenges
in environment and sustainability sectors which needs proper attention. Also,
the worthy Vice Chancellor reiterated that the establishment of Pakhtunkhwa Economic
Policy Research Institute at AWKUM in near future will play
its role in formulating policies, like Climate Change policy, which will
determine more clear direction towards achieving the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) or agenda 2030.

AWKUM Debating Society Held its first interdepartmental bilingual
declamation Contest on (13th March, 2019). A total of 48 students demonstrated
their debating skills and impressed the judges and audience with their oratory,
style, diction and articulation. Prof.
Dr. Aurangzeb graced the occasion as Chief Guest of the event. It is pertinent
to mention that more than 24 female contestants demonstrated their debating
skills.

The Chairperson of AWKUM Debating Society Ms Gullalie Anum Khan
formally launched the foundation of the Debating Society. Speaking on this
occasion, Ms Gullalie unveiled an ambitious plan to regularly host such events
in order to transform the debating society of the university into a cradle of
best speakers. In order to enhance the oratory skills of the students, she
underlined the need for consistent engagement with all the departments,
communication experts and further stressed the students’ encouragement to
participate in the declamation and debates contests. She also thanked the
organizers and the university administration who enabled the students to engage
in highly enriching conversations; rich in terms of content, style, persuasion
and expression. She highlighted that Mr. Imdad Ullah, a student of
Environmental Sciences has been elected as the first president of the debating
society.

Mr. Muhammad Shahab Zaman from the department of Chemistry clinched
first position in Urdu declamations while Ms. Sadia from the Department of
BioChemistry stood first in English declamation contest. In urdu category, Mr.
Imdad Ullah from the Department of Environmental sciences, Ms. Sara Qazi from
the Department of English, and Ms. Adan Mustafa Khan from the Department of
Psychology secured 2nd, 3rd and 4th positions respectively. Similarly, Mr. M
Hamza Zakir from the Department of Law, Ms. Aleena Khalid from Department of
Psychology and Mr. Usama Khan from the Department of Psychology secured 2nd,
3rd and 4th positions respectively.

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

An awareness session conducted by
Durshal KPIT Board for an opening of the 2nd cohort and Gender Inclusive spaces
at IBl. Where the coordinator Durshal mardan Pir Amad hold the entire session
and Ms Gullalie Anum khan faculty IBL brief the students about entrepreneurship
and business development process.